Ellipsoidal Reflector Quotes

#1. Humans are born to build something outrageous.

Kumar

#2. Dr. Gingrich, who was increasingly fascinated with the leaps of Mrs. Goodhall's mind, was still marveling over the confusing image of a nonpracticing homosexual; it struck him as a brilliant accusation to make of anyone who was slightly (or hugely) different.

John Irving

#3. To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Solon

#4. The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.

Karl Lehenbauer

#5. We hope for sympathy in a violent, damning, world, all that we've known and experienced in real life - as opposed to phantom memory. We long for confirmation and completion and justification - and we also long to survive and learn that our reckless existence has meaning.

Greg Bear

#6. Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

Anselm Kiefer

#7. I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

Yves Klein

#8. In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

#9. I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

Felix Baumgartner

#10. There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think of twilight and mists and dead maidens. Tonight it tinkled in my mouth like secret laughter.

John Banville

#11. Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

Spike Lee

#12. I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

Jack London

#13. When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

David Cottrell

#14. But credit card debt is unsecured debt, which means if you get in trouble and cannot pay off your credit card, you can discharge it in bankruptcy. What are they going do to you? If you're in a financial position to just methodically pay off both credit card and student loans, pay them all.

Suze Orman